Kloppsta wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:06 am
Nice bro! So if you were being hyper critical......on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being not noticeable in sound and feel and 10 being completely night and day difference).......how different is the FM3 to the AX8? Hearing how your AX8 sounded in the recording process for this track, and how it sounds mixed now.....do you think you would have ended up with a "better" result if you had your FM3 at the time? Curious minds need to know
It's not a night and day difference. Honestly, after some time with it I would say the AX8 is an 8.5/10 if you can give an FM3 a 10/10 in terms of sound and feel. YMMV.
The gain sounds are probably 99% the same, but I feel that the cleans and the grit patches have a little bit more "something" to them. The band noticed that and commented on it. It could also be caused by voodoo or the bunny tails I was wearing.
The biggest thing for me is the form factor. It's a smaller, lighter pedal with a big display and scribble scripts. I was happy with the AX8 in terms of sound. There is always going to be some sort of indescribable difference, because fractal changed their sound engine with the III/FM3. Therefore, my old AX8 patches did not transfer over perfectly even with the exact same settings - they sounded a bit different. So I had to recreate them.
I don't think I would have achieved a better result with the FM3 but I sure do like the extra pedalboard space hehe.